Dive in. Death is only a breath away&
Encounter great white sharks, the stricken Kursk submarine, gold salvagers, sponge divers, giant squid, the wreck of the Titanic, Navy frogmen, and bathyscopes in record-breaking descents in The Mammoth Book of the Deep. These riveting accounts range from the Red Sea to the South Pacific, from the North Atlantic to the Caribbean – and include contributions by names such as Jacques Cousteau, Hans Hasse, Peter Benchley and Tim ‘Neutral Buoyancy’ Ecott.
Includes:
Goldfinder: Keith Jessop – salvaging the gold cargo from HMS Edinburgh Black Water: Don Camsell – an SBS training operation aboard a mini-sub goes tragically wrong off the coast of Scotland A Time to Die: Robert Moore – the operation to rescue the trapped submariners of the Kursk Discovering the Titanic: Robert Ballard – the world’s foremost wreck-hunter on the world’s greatest wreck Descent: William Beebe – the record breaking descent in a bathysphere off Bermuda, 1934 World Without Sun: Jacques Cousteau – the famous experiment in living for a month on the sea bed